Social Media Consultant Rick Snyder

Author: Maria Snyder

  • Social Media Goodness ALS

    #IceBucketChallenge #StrikeOutALS #ALSIceBucketChallenge What a wonderful phenomenon the ice bucket challenge is. Raising money and awareness to fight and cure ALS is social media goodness. Me personally, I simply wrote a check. I’ve known someone who lost their fight with the disease. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), often referred to as “Lou Gehrig’s Disease,” is a […]

  • Instagram #Social Savvy Visuals Wow

    Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, apply digital filters to them, and share them on a variety of social networking services, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr. [via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram] Instagram is where savvy businesses focus outreach. Instagram via the PC or a […]

  • Unplug and Look Up

    Unplug your device, live your life. We don’t need to be socially connected all the time. Watch and see why we miss so much when glued to technology. Gary Turk is a 27 year old writer, director and spoken word performer. He is the creator of the YouTube film ‘Look Up’, which has gained over […]

  • 5 Tips to Improve Your Social Media Marketing Efficiency

    Almost 50% of all companies with an online presence also have specific content marketing strategies. Social media marketing budgets are expected to double in the next five years. SEO–search engine optimization–is more important than ever, with 33% of click-throughs going to the very first result of a Google search. Still think your business’s social media […]

  • Drive Business by Joining the Mobile Payments Conversation

    Drive Business by Joining the Mobile Payments Conversation

    It’s well-established in the business press that mobile payments are a growing trend among businesses and consumers. Business Intelligence reported in October 2013 that credit and debit cards are being replaced by smartphones with mobile wallets and payment applications, further bolstered by QR (Quick Response) codes and the smartphone-driven Square Reader. If you are the […]

  • Blog Comments Let’s be Social

    Blog comments were social long before social networks. Interacting online, submitting feedback and comments is a mainstay of the social network. Opening your blog to comments comes with baggage in the form of comment spam. Think email spam but take it up a few notches.  My content management system of choice is self hosted WordPress. […]

  • Social Network Etiquette for the TMI Drama

    Too much information with social sharing is a filter many users need help with. Filtering drama, arguments, opinions and controversy within social networks comes with its own dose of patience. We don’t want to know that Aunt Mary’s toe is infected, or that our friend Sue and her significant other broke up again for the […]

  • Create a Social Media Logo for Your Business

    Designing an impeccable logo requires the consideration of multiple dynamics. Black and white framing strips everything away, confirming a logo is sensible in its simplest form. A logo mark is designed to complement the actual graphic, as seen on the famous Cardinals, Red Bull, Yamaha and Adidas ads. Logos need to be properly color balanced […]

  • 7 Social Media Lies Revisited

    7 Crazy Social Media Lies was a post I originally wrote last year about this time. Time for an update and a refresher. The Northeastern USA air is transitioning to winter (again). It makes me think of holidays, family and friends. I’m wired that way and I love it. Before the holidays, I spend time […]

  • Social Media is Enormous, Where is My Audience?

    Your social media audience, customers and prospects are not on every social channel.  Focus your marketing strategy at the start on the places your customers and prospects are likely to use. One easy way to tell which social networks are popular with your audience is asking them. Here is an idea, start a poll at […]

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